Pencil-clip.



W. B. GOODE.

PENCIL CLIP.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 25,1909.

9? 1 9 1 9 m Patented Sept. 27, 1910.

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WILLIAlVfB. GOODE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PENCIL-CLIP.

Application filed May 25, 1909.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVILLTAM B. Goonn, citizen of the United States,residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inPencilClips, of which the following is a specification.

This invention comprehends certain new and useful improvements in pencilclips or retainers, and the invention has for its primary object asimple construction of device of this character which may be verycheaply and easily manufactured, and which will be etlicient inoperation so that when applied to a pencil, it may securely hold thesame in a "est pocket or the like.

lVith these and other objects in view as will more fully appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention consists in certain constructions,arrangements and combinations of the parts that I shall hereinafterfully describe and claim.

For a full understanding of the invention, reference is to be had to thefollowing de scription and accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective 'iew of my improved clip holder, showing thesame applied to a pencil; ig. 2 is a similar view of the devicedetached; Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of that form of thedevice which is illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 4: is a viewillustrating one application of the device to a pocket.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and accompanying drawings by the same reference characters.

My improved pencil clip is constructed of a single piece of wireembodying two longitudinal bars 1 and 2 connected at their ends as shownto form two end cross bars 3 and 4, the device also embodying anintermediate cross bar In this form of the invention, the wire is bentto form the different parts as shown, one end of the wire constituting aportion of the longitudinal bar 2 and being looped around the angularlydisposed intermediate cross bar as indicated at 6, the said cross barbeing transversely curved as shown and looped at its Specification ofLetters Patent.

Patented Sept. 27, 15910.

Serial No. 498,211.

I extremity around the longitudinal bar 1 as indicated at T. In thepreferred arrangement of parts in this embodiment of the invention, theend cross bars 3 and 1 are turned back slightly or offset as shown, andin the normal unflexed position of the parts the looped end 6 of thewire is offset from the plane of the other parts so as to yield in abackward direction, the loop (3 sliding on the inner cross bar 5 so asto accommodate the device to pencils of different diameters.

From the foregoing description in connection with the accompanyingdrawing, it is believed that the operation of my improved pencil clip orretainer is obvious. in the practical application of the device, thepencil is slipped down ardly' through the offset cross bars 3 and t orback of the intermediate cross bar 5, the device being thereby securelyheld upon the pencil and the two longitudinal bars 1 and. 2, togetherwith their lower cross bar t constituting a clip member which may extenddownwardly along the outside of a vest pocket or the like so as tosecurely retain the pencil in the users pocket, the outwardly offsetlower ends of the bars 1 and 2 facilitating the operation of theattaching of the device to the pocket.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

As a new article of manufacture, the herein described clip consisting ofa single piece of wire bent to form longitudinal bars and connecting endbars, one end of the wire being bent transversely intermediate of theends of the longitudinal bars and looped around one of them, the otherextremity of the wire constitutin a portion of the other bar, and loopedaround the intermediate cross bar, the normal position of the loop ofthe last named extremity in the unflexed condition of the same being ata point between the ends of the transversely bent intermediate portionof wire, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I itil'lX my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

VILLIAM B. G-OODE.

Witnesses FRANK H. VhLsoN, EnNns'r J. KUn'rznMAN.

